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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Hilli 1971-11-22 - 1971-12-18

People

Olof Palme age 44
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 55
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 52
Prime Minister - Canada
Bruno Kreisky age 60
Chancellor - Austria
Abdou Diouf age 36
Prime Minister - Senegal
Georgios Papadopoulos age 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 36
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Marcelo Caetano age 65
Prime Minister - Portugal
Abdul Razak Hussein age 49
Prime Minister - Malaysia
William McMahon age 63
Prime Minister - Australia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 45
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 55
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 58
Prime Minister - Albania
Jens Otto Krag age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Trygve Bratteli age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 39
Prime Minister - Qatar
Gaston Eyskens age 66
Prime Minister - Belgium
Pierre Werner age 57
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 69
Prime Minister - Romania
Kamisese Mara age 51
Prime Minister - Fiji
Barend Biesheuvel age 51
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 71
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Tajuddin Ahmad age 46
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Forbes Burnham age 48
Prime Minister - Guyana
Kofi Abrefa Busia age 58
Prime Minister - Ghana
Jenő Fock age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kim Jong-pil age 45
Prime Minister - South Korea
Teuvo Aura age 58
Prime Minister - Finland
Eric Williams age 60
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 58
Prime Minister - Iceland
Keith Holyoake age 67
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Wasfi Tal age 52
Prime Minister - Jordan
Hedi Amara Nouira age 60
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 46
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Sisowath Sirik Matak age 57
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 44
Prime Minister - Nepal
Errol Barrow age 51
Prime Minister - Barbados
Hugh Shearer age 48
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Eric Gairy age 49
Prime Minister - Grenada
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 52
Prime Minister - Morocco
Alfred Hilbe age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Jules Sedney age 49
Prime Minister - Suriname
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 59
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Tu'i Pelehake age 49
Prime Minister - Tonga
Makhosini Dlamini age 57
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 46
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 39
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ksente Bogoev age 52
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Salomon Tandeng Muna age 59
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 48
Premier - Dominica
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 60
Prime Minister - Comoros
Žarko Bulajić age 49
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 55
Prime Minister - Peru
Nihat Erim age 59
Prime Minister - Turkey
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 71
Governor-General - New Zealand
Paul Hasluck age 66
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Campbell age 79
Governor-General - Jamaica
Arleigh Winston Scott age 71
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 33
Prince - Spain
George H. W. Bush age 47
United States Ambassador to the UN
Barack Obama age 10
Donald Trump age 25
Michael Jackson age 13
Vladimir Putin age 19
Nelson Mandela age 53
George W. Bush age 25
Joe Biden age 29
Pablo Picasso age 90
Charlie Chaplin age 82
Bill Gates age 16
Pope Francis age 34
Steve Jobs age 16
Bill Clinton age 25
Angela Merkel age 17
Neil Armstrong age 41
François Hollande age 17
Elvis Presley age 36
John Paul II age 51
Gabriel García Márquez age 44
Mikhail Gorbachev age 40
Elon Musk age 4 months
Stephen Hawking age 29
Jean-Paul Sartre age 66
Benedict XVI age 44
Mother Teresa age 61
Harry S. Truman age 87
Hillary Clinton age 24
Kamala Harris age 7
Nicolas Sarkozy age 16
Xi Jinping age 18
Naruhito age 11
Hugo Chávez age 17
Simone de Beauvoir age 63
John Lennon age 31
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 17
Muhammad Ali age 29
Kofi Annan age 33
Charles III age 23
Osama bin Laden age 14
Lech Wałęsa age 28
Lyndon B. Johnson age 63
Leo XIV age 16
Diego Maradona age 11
Narendra Modi age 21
Rafael Correa age 8
Aung San Suu Kyi age 26
Benjamin Netanyahu age 22
Dmitry Medvedev age 6
14th Dalai Lama age 36
Silvio Berlusconi age 35
Shinzo Abe age 17
Bob Marley age 26
Tim Berners-Lee age 16
Mahathir Mohamad age 46
Boris Yeltsin age 40
Ali Khamenei age 32
Jacques Chirac age 39
Guillermo Lasso age 16
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 52
Kwame Nkrumah age 62
Alexander Lukashenko age 17
Tony Blair age 18
Yasser Arafat age 42
David Cameron age 5
Linus Torvalds age 1
Ban Ki-moon age 27
Boris Johnson age 7
Diana, Princess of Wales age 10
Bashar al-Assad age 6
Benazir Bhutto age 18
Jair Bolsonaro age 16
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 26
Theresa May age 15
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 15
Henry Kissinger age 48
Václav Havel age 35
Nicolás Maduro age 9
Robert Mugabe age 47
Hosni Mubarak age 43
Dilma Rousseff age 23
Al Gore age 23
François Mitterrand age 55
David Ben-Gurion age 85
Milton Friedman age 59
Ruhollah Khomeini age 69
Valentina Tereshkova age 34
Ilham Aliyev age 9
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 33
António Guterres age 22
Akihito age 37
Helmut Kohl age 41
Rosa Parks age 58
Gordon Brown age 20
Shimon Peres age 48
John Paul I age 59
Olaf Scholz age 13
Keir Starmer age 9
Gerhard Schröder age 27
Hassan Rouhani age 23
Hu Jintao age 28
Evo Morales age 12
Joko Widodo age 10
Petro Poroshenko age 6
Mikheil Saakashvili age 3
Augusto Pinochet age 56
Ursula von der Leyen age 13
Mike Pence age 12
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 18
Michelle Bachelet age 20
Ariel Sharon age 43
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 53
Felipe VI of Spain age 3
Desmond Tutu age 40
Viktor Yanukovych age 21
Mohamed Morsi age 20
Viktor Orbán age 8
Sergio Mattarella age 30
Manmohan Singh age 39
Pervez Musharraf age 28
Yuri Andropov age 57
Julia Gillard age 10
Abdullah Gül age 21
Lech Kaczyński age 22
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 15
Jeff Bezos age 7
Buzz Aldrin age 41
Mohammad Khatami age 28
Yitzhak Rabin age 49
Tsai Ing-wen age 15
Mariano Rajoy age 16
Andrei Sakharov age 50
Dick Cheney age 30
Condoleezza Rice age 17
Raúl Castro age 40
Sheikh Hasina age 24
Giorgio Napolitano age 46
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 31
Mark Rutte age 4